Indonesia - WSSLIC I

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This project provides safe, adequate and easily accessible water supply and sanitation services and supports hygiene/health education for poor communities in underserved and unserved rural villages outside Java and in communities around a few densely populated districts in Java through sustainable and community-based arrangements. Provision of water supply and sanitation (WSS), supported by essential hygiene and sanitation education, will improve the health status and productivity of the poor communities. The project serves about 2 million people living in selected rural and urban low-income communities in six provinces. Provincial level poverty status is the main consideration for selecting these provinces. The project comprises two broad components. The first component, water supply, provides safe water to about 2 million people in about 1,400 communities. This includes construction of piped systems (spring capture, groundwater, and surface) and non-piped systems (protected dug wells, protected springs, shallow and deep wells with hand pumps, rainwater collectors, and appropriate systems). About 10 percent of the water supply component provides for rehabilitation of existing facilities. The second component, sanitation, provides appropriate sanitation facilities to approximately 1.7 million people through a process of demonstration, training, and promotion to encourage beneficiary and private-sector participation in constructing and financing sanitation facilities.